(urth) Juturna, the Missing Sister

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Tue Jul 27 15:47:53 PDT 2010


>> But I still believe that red hair and reddish blonde hair is intended to
>> connect someone to the family of Typhon.
>>      
> That's probably true in Long/Short.
>
> However, I very much doubt that Typhon was accorded this much thought
> when planning and writing tBotNS. Long/Short are an afterthought (as
> is Urth), and Typhon in NS is little more than a chance encounter
> (albeit one with important symbolic value).
>
>    

Well, Wolfe apparently included an entire backstory to Typhon, to his 
parents, and to a couple of his children in the story of Frog and Fish. 
So I think he must have given it more thought than that.

u+16b9



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